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    • Great Lakes Credit Union

      2111 Waukegan Rd Bannockburn, IL 60015-1830

    • Great Lakes Credit Union

      2525 Greenbay Road North Chicago, IL 60064-3012

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    • Great Lakes Credit Union

      1727 Freedom Dr Naperville, IL 60563

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    • Great Lakes Credit Union

      7275 Grand Ave Gurnee, IL 60031-5270

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    • Great Lakes Credit Union

      351 East Route 173 Antioch, IL 60002-7355

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    • Review from Royden H

      1 star

      01/16/2024

      Fraudulent group that is on the Corporate team. I got charged extra fees for (one night), at a Hotel. I was in another location! Had evidence on my receipt, account and email, and this group at great lakes would not credit? Either part of the Crooks or Uneducated laborers work their. STAY AWAY FROM this so called credit union

      Great Lakes Credit Union Response

      01/31/2024

      GLCU is dedicated to providing financial guidance to our members. In reviewing your feedback, GLCU has shared that updated information is required to provide a resolution to the situation. Please reach out to GLCU at your convenience at ************* to learn more.
    • Review from Minerva S

      1 star

      12/28/2023

      Charged me 7 overdrafts and a total 9 in the period where my debit card was hacked. I had to transfer money from a shared account during this period which is why said overdrafts were incurred.If all 9 are not resolved and refunded, our family will be leaving GLCU along with a very large savings account in the top %1 of your members.Since you clearly don't care about poor people maybe you will when your bottom line is hit.

      Great Lakes Credit Union Response

      01/09/2024

      **** has reached out to our member and refunded all fees incurred during this unfortunate situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
    • Review from Melody F

      1 star

      11/17/2023

      I have called many times each time the wait to talk to a person is unreal. Today I just need to make sure they followed through with correcting my name that they were supposed to do LAST YEAR and to remove the secondary person. I did the pay off but did it go through? How will myntitle look? I have waited at this point more than 2hrs!!! to talk to someone. they said we can do a chat, great! WRONG, they will only assist you if its online banking, s******* anyone else who needs help
    • Review from Tee H

      1 star

      07/09/2022

      Hello All. Today I walked into the ********** Branch 7/8/22 around 3pm to withdraw funds from my account. The tellers at the bank were A and S. My account was locked after teller had already gotten the approval to release funds to me. Please help me resolve this issue. I advised A I received a settlement today from Statefarm for an injury. I ask A would I be able to take out funds from around $5,000-10,000, if not what ever amount would be fine. Because I know some smaller banks do not have that much. S advised A it would be no problem as long as the bank had the funds available and they got a quick approval from manager. A then went to call for the approval, which is normal process that Im already aware of. She got the approval for $***** and advised I come back tomorrow for the other funds. I told A and S no the 5 or ***** would be fine, no need for the 10 at the moment. Then A called another person and I asked her what was going on. She stated oh Im calling to see if I can get you approved for the 10k. I said for what? I just told you the 6 was fine. So then the second person she Spoke with told **** to ask me what do I need the money for? And why do I want cash? And if I can just take a check and if I can give her proof my deposit came from statefarm? I said Im not giving you my medical settlement documents, is that even legal? Please show me proof thats policy. She said they dont have that. But I STILL showed A my statefarm documents. I then advised A I have been out of work due to injury that is why statefarm has paid me out and I need to pay bills. But either way I dont need to give any reason as to why I want to withdraw my money. Also told her why would I want a check if the purpose of having a bank account is to withdraw funds. Mind you at this point I seen So many other Caucasian individuals were withdrawing thousands but I couldnt a woman of color. Long story short, they froze my account. And here I am no funds and no update.
    • Review from Stan B

      1 star

      02/28/2022

      Problems opening an Account based on their (gatekeepers) insistence that my ** Drivers License is Expired.I renewed it on 2/16 and have sent a Scanned image 3 times already.Their Gatekeeper is **********************supossedly the Sr. eCommunication Specialist.For a Communications Specialist she DOES NOT communicate real well.a. what doesn't she like about the Scan? fuzzy wrong file format? (.jpeg vs .pdf)wait until the Permanent one comes & apply again?

      Great Lakes Credit Union Response

      03/08/2022

      March 08, 2022 Great Lakes Credit Union (GLCU) has received your review with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), dated February 28, 2022, regarding an account opening. At the beginning of the pandemic the ******** Secretary of State announced that drivers license and identification cards would be valid if the dates listed were between January 1, 2020 and March 31, 2022. After reviewing your account application and documentation provided, GLCU can proceed with opening your account. The identification you provided falls within the time frame provided by the ******** Secretary of State. We apologize for the interaction and hope that you will consider opening your new membership with GLCU. If you wish to proceed with opening your account, please reach out to our call center at **************.
    • Review from samuel e

      1 star

      12/07/2021

      I am very disappointed in the quality of service of this company.
    • Review from Maryann K

      5 stars

      09/26/2021

      I've been using this credit union for about 20 yrs now. I have never had any problems what so ever. The employees are helpful and friendly, their fraud prevention is very pro-active and contact me anytime any transaction seems questionable. I've been very pleased with their services. I intend to stay with them unless I encounter a major reason to change. Chase Bank tellers let someone withdraw $4000 from my friend's account without asking for a ID and there were no alerts when they did it a second time. They just posted that they were hacked in 2014 and in December 2020 left customer acct information exposed. My friend is out $10,000 right now. So I have to say all things considered, GLCU has a much better fraud prevention. They call or text anytime there's a transaction that's the least bit suspicious and lock my account until I verify if it's mine or not.

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